On Friday, the President of Colombia, Iván Duque, reported that he had instructed the Minister of the Interior, Daniel Palacios, to carry out an external audit of the software used in the National Civil Status Registry to select the voting juries that were chosen for the election day of Congress last Sunday, March 13.
On the Caracol Radio station, they reported that the president reiterated that during those elections protuberant errors were made and that it would again be called to install the Guarantee Board, so that the audit could also be requested.
“Some facts were presented that really mark historical themes. The number of votes that were in dispute shows that there are flaws, and that is why it is the call for an exhaustive external audit of the jury selection software; to specify which databases were used and where they came from, because there are protruding errors in those 600,000 votes that were used in reality are inexplicable”, they quoted on the radio about what Duque said.
Meanwhile, on RCN Radio they emphasized that the president also seeks to assess what failures were made in the training of these people, prior to the vote.
“What happened to the way in which the precount was transmitted, with the E14 forms and other than that, an in-depth study from the technological point of view is also carried out on the Software that is being used today by the National Electoral Council for the purposes of the scrutiny of its competence,” he concluded.
Duque's pronouncement comes just when the complaint of the Transparent Colombia initiative came out, where they state that possibly 300,000 juries voted twice, once at the table where they were carrying out the oversight and the other on which they had their ID registered.
On the RCN Radio station they consulted with the leader of this organization, Sergio Alzate, who assured that the bad performance was calculated.
“This was not spontaneous, the more than 600,000 voting juries deliberately, premeditated and planned by the registrar, were able to vote twice, that's how more than 300,000 of them did,” he said.
According to the oversight they carried out, it was found that those appointed to watch over the March 13 elections had paid at the tables where they were carrying out their work and at the table where they had their ballot papers registered.
“It is verified by the minutes that are contrasted with the appointing resolutions in which they vote as voting juries in a position. But in this same place and at another table, they vote as citizens,” he added at the station.
Meanwhile, the television news report Noticias RCN indicated that the evidentiary material for this double vote will be added to a complaint that had been filed with the Attorney General's Office, where they had already started the process in October 2021.
In addition, they argued that the software they used in the Registry Office allowed the profiling of juries to favor people close to registrar Alexander Vega.
“The jurors found that the national registrar himself sent the profile of the types of juries he would choose for congressmen and congressional candidates, so that people with those profiles would be selected and that, in turn, their elections favored them,” Alzate said in that news.
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